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<p>[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 5183548, member: 78244"]Next up is a square-shoulder hollow-handle spade. I always love getting these, and they are very hard to acquire nowadays. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1213042[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a fun error which I have been planning on writing up on. It is a Wu Zhu with the obverse inscription repeated twice. It is official in style, so it is either an error made by rotating the mother mould, or it was intentionally produced by an errant mint worker. The result is a really neat looking coin. These are excessively rare and highly desired in the Chinese market.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1213043[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1213044[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another fun error. It is a Ban Liang with the “Ban” character (on the right) being upside down. This error is also extremely rare and highly desired.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1213045[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Up next is a very rare spade. It’s inscription is “Gan Dan”, a city which produced both knife and spade coins of various types. This is a large-size pointed-foot flat-handle spade, which filled a glaring hole in my collection. The type is very scarce at best, and prohibitively rare at worst with some varieties known by only a handful of specimens. This coin is from a recent hoard which came to market.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1213046[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1213047[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Last, but certainly not least, is this square 4-Zhu coin. It popped up in a small lot of similar coins on eBay, and it was an inscription which I did not already have. It is in very high great, and I particularly love the patina. Some call these “weights” because of the hangar, but that is highly unlikely because of the variability of the mass of these objects. They seem to be a short-lived experimental issue made sometime in the Western Han Dynasty.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1213048[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1213049[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If you have gotten this far, I appreciate your dedication. I hope I have not bored you to tears with my Chinese-centric acquisitions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 5183548, member: 78244"]Next up is a square-shoulder hollow-handle spade. I always love getting these, and they are very hard to acquire nowadays. [ATTACH=full]1213042[/ATTACH] Here is a fun error which I have been planning on writing up on. It is a Wu Zhu with the obverse inscription repeated twice. It is official in style, so it is either an error made by rotating the mother mould, or it was intentionally produced by an errant mint worker. The result is a really neat looking coin. These are excessively rare and highly desired in the Chinese market. [ATTACH=full]1213043[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1213044[/ATTACH] Here is another fun error. It is a Ban Liang with the “Ban” character (on the right) being upside down. This error is also extremely rare and highly desired. [ATTACH=full]1213045[/ATTACH] Up next is a very rare spade. It’s inscription is “Gan Dan”, a city which produced both knife and spade coins of various types. This is a large-size pointed-foot flat-handle spade, which filled a glaring hole in my collection. The type is very scarce at best, and prohibitively rare at worst with some varieties known by only a handful of specimens. This coin is from a recent hoard which came to market. [ATTACH=full]1213046[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1213047[/ATTACH] Last, but certainly not least, is this square 4-Zhu coin. It popped up in a small lot of similar coins on eBay, and it was an inscription which I did not already have. It is in very high great, and I particularly love the patina. Some call these “weights” because of the hangar, but that is highly unlikely because of the variability of the mass of these objects. They seem to be a short-lived experimental issue made sometime in the Western Han Dynasty. [ATTACH=full]1213048[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1213049[/ATTACH] If you have gotten this far, I appreciate your dedication. I hope I have not bored you to tears with my Chinese-centric acquisitions.[/QUOTE]
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